2011-05-11, 15:44
r3h4b Wrote:Ok. Bad news. My fear is confirmed. Google somehow banned me using this plugin. I know it sounds strange but I tried with a proxy (Hotspot shield) and damn!: results.What do you mean exactly by large romset? Do you have used the google scrapper during automatic scanning? If so... it maybe be possible that you have reach a quota limit on Google Images.
This all happened after I used the Google scraper to scrape images for a large romset so they've probably set up some banning rules. Now what?
Google images scrapper, due to its low accuracy result, have only been put into Advanced Launcher only for specific search (images not present into other game images databases) but not for automatic scan imports.
For what I actually know there is no quota limitation for Google Images API Key used by Advanced Launcher (http://code.google.com/apis/imagesearch/terms.html). Even if there is a quota, in our case, this is not the API key that have been blocked (because other users, as me, still able to use it). This is also not only your IP adress, because your still able to access Google Images using you browser. It's look like it is the combo API Key/your IP address that a been blocked (is it is this).
If it is the case the solutions for you will be :
- use proxy server
- use another api key
- expect that you will be unbanned after several days